Archive for June 11th, 2010
Preparing the Ground
Between propagandistic “documentaries” scaring the uninformed and economically illiterate and a President who willing adopts right-wing narratives as being responsible and “post-partisan”, it is becoming increasingly clear that the next big fight in the American republic will center around our ballooning debt and the ill-advised austerity proposals being bandied about for addressing that debt. Looks [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2010 under Politics, Popular Culture, The Dismal Science.
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Bottom-up Innovation
Innovation is the new buzz word in education policy, and it is truly frustrating to watch Team Obama ram through top-down reforms that are little more than re-packaged ideas from the Business Roundtable and the Gates foundation under the innovation banner. As a follow up to my previous posts on professional autonomy and building the [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2010 under Education Policy.
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